This is the "Dairy" scheme - primarily aimed for roguelike players, but also for everyday command use, as well as programming. With other colour schemes, there were one or more tidbits that I didn't like, that made it unfeasible to use in the long run:

• ugly/indistinguishable colour combinations
• too monochromatic
• dark blue is difficult to read, and blue is hard to distinguish from cyan
• cooler hues that wouldn't play well under redlight
• base16 colours that made it guesswork to figure out if a colour was meant to be "bold/highlighted" text
• coloured text which grew tiresome after a while

After years of intense tweaking, I came up with something definitive, in the sense you won't be fiddling around for a long while. All colours are original, and do NOT obey modern trends. The colour scheme (hex) is as follows, and can be applied to terminals, or anything which uses 16 colours:

	dark	light
black	#070605	#865870
red	#9a0b20	#ee3a43
green	#19b25a	#a9ecad
yellow	#a35834	#f5db7b
blue	#003d79	#009ada
magenta	#b269ff	#f4b8f4
cyan	#007485	#7be3f6
white	#f0cbbe	#ffffff

Below are examples - "Dairy" on left, default Windows/xterm scheme on right.